# git rev-parse -q --verify 2be7d348fe924f0c5583c6a805bd42cecda93104^{commit} 2be7d348fe924f0c5583c6a805bd42cecda93104 already have revision, skipping fetch # git checkout -q -f -B kisskb 2be7d348fe924f0c5583c6a805bd42cecda93104 # git clean -qxdf # < git log -1 # commit 2be7d348fe924f0c5583c6a805bd42cecda93104 # Author: Linus Torvalds # Date: Tue Nov 26 11:34:06 2019 -0800 # # Revert "vfs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()" # # This reverts commit 0be0ee71816b2b6725e2b4f32ad6726c9d729777. # # I was hoping it would be benign to switch over entirely to FMODE_STREAM, # and we'd have just a couple of small fixups we'd need, but it looks like # we're not quite there yet. # # While it worked fine on both my desktop and laptop, they are fairly # similar in other respects, and run mostly the same loads. Kenneth # Crudup reports that it seems to break both his vmware installation and # the KDE upower service. In both cases apparently leading to timeouts # due to waitinmg for the f_pos lock. # # There are a number of character devices in particular that definitely # want stream-like behavior, but that currently don't get marked as # streams, and as a result get the exclusion between concurrent # read()/write() on the same file descriptor. Which doesn't work well for # them. # # The most obvious example if this is /dev/console and /dev/tty, which use # console_fops and tty_fops respectively (and ptmx_fops for the pty master # side). It may be that it's just this that causes problems, but we # clearly weren't ready yet. # # Because there's a number of other likely common cases that don't have # llseek implementations and would seem to act as stream devices: # # /dev/fuse (fuse_dev_operations) # /dev/mcelog (mce_chrdev_ops) # /dev/mei0 (mei_fops) # /dev/net/tun (tun_fops) # /dev/nvme0 (nvme_dev_fops) # /dev/tpm0 (tpm_fops) # /proc/self/ns/mnt (ns_file_operations) # /dev/snd/pcm* (snd_pcm_f_ops[]) # # and while some of these could be trivially automatically detected by the # vfs layer when the character device is opened by just noticing that they # have no read or write operations either, it often isn't that obvious. # # Some character devices most definitely do use the file position, even if # they don't allow seeking: the firmware update code, for example, uses # simple_read_from_buffer() that does use f_pos, but doesn't allow seeking # back and forth. # # We'll revisit this when there's a better way to detect the problem and # fix it (possibly with a coccinelle script to do more of the FMODE_STREAM # annotations). # # Reported-by: Kenneth R. Crudup # Cc: Kirill Smelkov # Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds # < /opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/m68k-linux/bin/m68k-linux-gcc --version # < /opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/m68k-linux/bin/m68k-linux-ld --version # < git log --format=%s --max-count=1 2be7d348fe924f0c5583c6a805bd42cecda93104 # < make -s -j 24 ARCH=m68k O=/kisskb/build/linus_m68k-defconfig_m68k CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/m68k-linux/bin/m68k-linux- defconfig # make -s -j 24 ARCH=m68k O=/kisskb/build/linus_m68k-defconfig_m68k CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/m68k-linux/bin/m68k-linux- :1511:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp] /kisskb/src/arch/m68k/mvme147/config.c: In function 'mvme147_hwclk': /kisskb/src/arch/m68k/mvme147/config.c:175:2: warning: #warning check me! [-Wcpp] /kisskb/src/arch/m68k/mvme16x/config.c: In function 'mvme16x_hwclk': /kisskb/src/arch/m68k/mvme16x/config.c:440:2: warning: #warning check me! [-Wcpp] /kisskb/src/ipc/shm.c: In function 'ksys_shmdt': /kisskb/src/ipc/shm.c:1712:59: warning: 'file' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/kernel/printk/printk.c: In function 'devkmsg_sysctl_set_loglvl': /kisskb/src/kernel/printk/printk.c:204:16: warning: 'old' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/kernel/bpf/btf.c: In function '__btf_resolve_helper_id': /kisskb/src/kernel/bpf/btf.c:3909:20: warning: 't' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c: In function 'mpi_read_raw_from_sgl': /kisskb/src/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c:336:12: warning: 'buff' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/lib/rhashtable.c: In function 'rht_deferred_worker': /kisskb/src/include/linux/rhashtable.h:110:10: warning: 'next' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/lib/rhashtable.c:222:28: note: 'next' was declared here /kisskb/src/kernel/acct.c: In function 'acct_pin_kill': /kisskb/src/kernel/acct.c:177:2: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value] /kisskb/src/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: In function 'SMB2_ioctl_init': /kisskb/src/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c:2700:19: warning: 'in_data_buf' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c: In function 'check_extent_data_item': /kisskb/src/fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c:232:5: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'unsigned int' [-Wformat] /kisskb/src/net/core/gen_stats.c: In function '__gnet_stats_copy_basic': /kisskb/src/net/core/gen_stats.c:156:19: warning: 'seq' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:201:12: warning: '__ei_open' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:230:12: warning: '__ei_close' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:254:13: warning: '__ei_tx_timeout' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:300:20: warning: '__ei_start_xmit' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:509:13: warning: '__ei_poll' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:850:33: warning: '__ei_get_stats' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:950:13: warning: '__ei_set_multicast_list' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c:988:27: warning: '____alloc_ei_netdev' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] /kisskb/src/drivers/md/raid10.c: In function 'read_balance': /kisskb/src/drivers/md/raid10.c:842:22: warning: 'best_pending_slot' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/net/core/dev.c: In function 'validate_xmit_skb_list': /kisskb/src/net/core/dev.c:3547:15: warning: 'tail' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/net/core/filter.c: In function 'bpf_clear_redirect_map': /kisskb/src/net/core/filter.c:3603:4: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value] /kisskb/src/fs/proc/inode.c: In function 'proc_reg_open': /kisskb/src/include/linux/list.h:65:12: warning: 'pdeo' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/proc/inode.c:338:21: note: 'pdeo' was declared here /kisskb/src/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c: In function 'ocfs2_trim_mainbm': /kisskb/src/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:7608:17: warning: 'first_bit' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/ocfs2/file.c: In function 'ocfs2_file_write_iter': /kisskb/src/fs/ocfs2/file.c:2421:3: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value] /kisskb/src/fs/udf/unicode.c: In function 'udf_name_conv_char': /kisskb/src/fs/udf/unicode.c:132:8: warning: 'c' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c: In function 'macsec_del_txsa': /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:1995:2: warning: 'assoc_num' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:1995:2: warning: 'tx_sc' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c: In function 'macsec_upd_txsa': /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:2060:5: warning: 'assoc_num' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:2060:24: warning: 'tx_sc' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:2061:21: warning: 'secy' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c: In function 'macsec_del_rxsa': /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:1918:2: warning: 'assoc_num' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/macsec.c:1918:2: warning: 'rx_sc' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/fs/posix_acl.c: In function 'get_acl': /kisskb/src/fs/posix_acl.c:148:3: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value] /kisskb/src/net/sctp/output.c: In function 'sctp_packet_config': /kisskb/src/include/net/sock.h:1964:19: warning: 'sk' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/net/sctp/output.c:79:15: note: 'sk' was declared here /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c: In function 'tun_get_user': /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c:1836:30: warning: 'copylen' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c:1526:31: warning: 'linear' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] /kisskb/src/drivers/net/tun.c:1749:46: note: 'linear' was declared here /kisskb/src/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c: In function 'nf_flow_rule_match': /kisskb/src/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c:80:3: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Woverflow] Completed OK # rm -rf /kisskb/build/linus_m68k-defconfig_m68k # Build took: 0:01:42.803409